Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-02-12
CURIOUS CONVERSATIONS.

Sturgeon skin makes durable boot and
shoe leather.
Sponges have been discovered in the
lake at Chautauqua, N. Y.
United States Senator Ransom's wife
fitted each of her six sons for college.
Prof. Hughes says silk ribbon is
better lightning conductor than metal
lie rod.
Erlenmeyer calls cocaine "the third
scourge of humanity" Morphia and
alcohol are the other two.
A school has been established in the
IIland of Formosa for the education of
the natives in medicine and surgery.
Cape Breton has a native feet 81
inches in heighth with his boots on, and
Antagonist had citizen feet inches
in his socks.
The death rate at st. Petersburg is
said to exceed the birth rate by nearly
100 per month. The city is growing
nevertheless.
Oceans of Milwaukee beer have run
from the spigots OF America. Therefore
it is not surprising to read in Western
exchange that the late Anna Maria
Scblitz, widow of Brewer Schlitz, "be-
queathed $50, 900 dollars in cash lega-
cies to relatives"
The Southern Practitioner says that
gelatine capsules, so much used in the
| administration of unpleasant medicines,
are insoluble in alcohol. For this rea-
son it is useless to give medicine in this
form to inebriates or for some days aft er
| the excessive use of spirits.
A very curious coincide nee recently
occurred at Bethany, Conn. George
Lounsbury, aged "a, and his wife, aged
81, died on the same dav and almost the
eame instant. They were both taken ill
! just a week before their death. Mr..
Lounsbury died of a paralytic stroke and
his wife succumbed to typhoid pneumo-
MIA.
Victor Emmanuers monument in the
| Pantheon of Naples consists of huge
bronze tablet, seven feet high and 16
feet long, surmounted by Roman ca
gle which measures ten foot in breadth
of wing The v hole is made of the
bronze Of old cannons. The single in-
scription is: "Victor Emanuel II, Father
of the Country"
An original genius in lowe named
| Stehr obtained loan from a money
lender by giving a mortgage on five
white steers he claimed to have on his
| farm. When the man came to collect
his money the wife demurely presented
| her five children. Unfortunately for
| Stehr, his creditor could not see the joke
and in a matter of fact sort of way pros
ceeded to have him arrested for pro-
curing money fraudulently.
In Italian cities the cleaning of the
streets is sold to the highest bidder at a
public auction. The bidder puts every
400 yards Of street IN charge of one man
and push cart, who is kept constantly
at work from sun rise to sun set and in
the long twilight. At intervals large
carts 90 around receive the contents of
| the push carts. The dirt is taken to a
factory, where it is pressed into blocks
| of about cubic yard in dimensions.
These are placed on the market and sold
for fertilizing purdoses.
Washington spiders have discovered
that game is plentiful near the electric
| lights which illumi nate the public build.
ings. In consequence their webs are so
thick and numerous that portions of the
architectural ornamentation are no
longer Visible, and when torn down by
the wind, or when they fall from decay,
the refuse gives dingy and dirty ap-
pearance to everything it comes in con
tact with. Not only this, but these adj
venturers take possession of the portion
of the ceiling of any room which receives
the illumination.